PHOP006: Rocket Footage EP featuring Lapels and Sponge Wings available to pre-order now for £3. Tracklisting: Side A Lapels 'When We Were Evil', 'Abemantis' Side B Sponge Wings 'Ice Cream Headache', 'Ruby's Apparatus'. Also included is a CD copy featuring all 4 songs and bonus tracks Lapels 'Dream Sequins' (Sponge Wings cover) and Sponge Wings '561 Dead Astronaughts' (Lapels cover).
PHOP003: Download The Gift EP featuring Lapels' track 'Ex Childrens Authour' here
Buy Lapels new single, the double A side 'Painted Skeletons' / 'Last Great Civilisation'. The single is released on 7" vinyl. It is available now for £2.50 (+ 50p p+p) and each 7" will come with a CDR copy of both songs and additional bonus song 'Forever Too Lonely To Smile'.
Download the single from iTunes here
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"When I say War, you say Hol. War!.........c'mooon".
Pop songs. Danced to, kissed to, jesus some people even make babies to these things. No matter how 'existencial' and 'enlightening' your brothers post-rock-brit-electronica-indie-progressive-punk band is, there is something endearing, nay, essencial about a good pop song. Even better however, are those pop songs that harbour the very spirit of that dancing, that kissing, and that....baby making. From common people to another girl another planet, pop songs are the soundtrack to one million jilted dances, lonley kisses and...you get it. Lapels are a terrifying and beautiful collage of passive nihalism and slakerdom. Pop culture is raped, mutated, then tucked between the verbs, song by song. Lapels write songs about intergalatic pink panzer troopes hunting dead pop artists. Odes to lost time travellers. Nods to beat poets, and hymns for bus stops. Lapels write songs about love and time travel. And really, what else is there?
On the face of it Wakefield four-piece Lapels are a fairly standard indie-rock band. The scuzzy guitars and downbeat vocals are nothing we haven't heard before. Perhaps this is what prompted one reviewer (the aptly named Will Slater) to write "Utter drivel ... crap, crap crap. Stupid song titles too. 0 out of 10"
Perhaps I'm listening to something different, because I happen to think Lapels are rather brilliant. The laissez faire delivery of 'Painted Skeletons' is captivating in a way that perhaps only Let's Wrestle could better. Even more impressive is the unusual structure of the song. Lapels have thrown the normal indie song-structure out the window and gone with something much more interesting. Pavement always seemed pretty good at that, but they were often self indulgent and this isn't.
'Last Great Civilisation' is deservedly granted double a-side status and like 'Painted Skeletons' is a thoughtful, compelling piece of songwriting. And neither has a stupid title.
8 Out Of 10
Lobster Quadrill Magazine
"This is the first release from new label Philophobia of Wakefield. Lapels debut "Painted Skeletons" is a curiously endearing mix of David Bowie croon and Stephen Malkmus wileyness, wrapped up in shambling guitar work. An odd delight."
Sheffield Phonograpic Corporation
Despite having a rubbish name which suggests that they belong to the ever-growing list of bands that are obsessed with The Libertines, Wakefield quartet Lapels' double A-sided single is a delightful slice of indie pop. Lead singer Tim sounds like a young David Bowie as he slurs and elongates his words ..ed Skeletons', while 'Last Great Civilisation' musically leans towards Sonic Youth's poppier moments with its scuzzed-up guitars and general raucousness. Awesome.
Ash Dosanjh, The Stool Pigeon
21/11/09 Cellar Club - Liverpool 27/11/09 The Mad Ferret - Preston 06/12/09 Fuel Cafe Bar - Withington Manchester 18/12/09 41 King Street - Blackburn 27/12/09 The Variety - Preston 07/01/10 The Imperial - Chorley
THE PLAYGROUND Vs Noise Of Art will give you a big Halloween bash on Saturday 31st October featuring
Man Like Me// My Tiger My Timing// My Toys Like Me// Trash Fashion// The Midi Midis// Glitches// The Teeth// Kindle// Gene Serene// DARKORSE-DJ set/// Rack ‘n’ Ruin – DJ Set// Afro Punk-DJ set// Slinky Sparkle// Chris Columbine// Little Bo Freak and Lydia Darling// Noise of Art’s “Dance of the Vampires” with They Came From The Stars and I Saw Them Vs Les Hommers DU Train// Ben Osborne -DJ set// Immaculate Extremists// Overlap// Your Mum// MOTH and more
“You're unlikely to attend another event in London like this so our advice is to get your ticket sharpish.” DJ Magazine, 2009.
Also,
Ohio
noiseniks Times New Viking will be playing The Basement in York on
Sept. 21st, the day their great new album 'Born Again Revisited' is
released
on Matador. Support from Banjo Or Freakout and Missing Kids. Ticket
purchase recommended for this, only a hundred of em.
After our hugely successful launch with the BRUTE CHORUS and CIRCUS BURLESQUE trapeze artists, stilts, performance artists and burlesque dancers we have the next instalment coming up on Saturday the 26th September featuring KAPUTT, ROMANCE, SPEAK AND THE SPELLS and a whole lot more. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Playing Sheffield next Wednesday or York on 21st if you fancy either of them. The 33% more beard has improved our abilities by at least a 1/3. Morsey x
Howdy. Shame you couldn't make Bristol last week, it was mega mega hot. So hot in-fact that the air-conditioning was sweating out over some bald-blokes slap-head. Laters
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